Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Death Toll From Tsunami Estimated 76,600

12 hours later... count is 76,600 dead...equal to
The entire 1999 population of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Every individual who lived on Maui in 1980

The entire secondary school teaching staff of Shanghai, China

2002 population of Lake Forest, California

2002 population of Redwood City, California

Nearly the 2001 population of Santa Maria, California


More than all the people in the city of Napa, California

More than Encinitas

Nearly three times Imperial Beach

Three times Lemon Grove

More than Poway, San Marcos or National City


More than the entire population of South San Francisco

In the Calgary CMA, there were 76,600 youth ages 15-24 in the labour force in 1996

More than 51 times the coalition force casualties in the Iraq War

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